Motivational Quotes

Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

- Jackson, Michael

Best Quotes about Music

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Wilde, Oscar

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Coward, Noel

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Sousa, John Philip

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

21.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

22.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

23.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

24.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

26.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

27.

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

28.

Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

32.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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Music should never be harmless.

Robertson, Robbie

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

40.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot